Escrick is a civil parish in the former Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 18 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Escrick and the surrounding area. The most important building in the parish is Escrick Park, a country house converted into a school. This is listed, and most of the other listed buildings are structures associated with it, in its gardens or the surrounding park. The rest of the listed buildings are in the village, and consist of a church, a vicarage converted into a hotel, and a memorial fountain.
A country house that was altered in 1758, extended in about 1765 by John Carr, and later converted into Queen Margaret's School. The building is rendered with stone dressings, the Carr extension is in brick, and it has a hipped Welsh slate roof. The main block has three storeys and seven bays, flanked by single-storey single-bay extensions, and with two-storey rear wings, the right with three bays and the left with four bays. The entrance on the right has a portico with four Ionic columns, a frieze, a cornice and a balustrade. The main range has floor bands, a mouldedmodillion cornice, a frieze, and a balustrade with urns on the corners. The windows in the ground floor are casements, above are sash windows, and all have architraves. In the Carr range are cantedbay windows.[2][3]
The piers are in pinkish-orange brick with stone dressings. They are square and about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high, and each pier has a stone cornice and a pineapple finial. The gate is in wrought iron, and has a rail and ornamental scrollwork between twisted bars.[4]
The garden temple in Escrick Park Gardens is in stone and has a circular plan. Two steps lead up to an Ionic colonnade, with a frieze, a cornice, and a stepped blocking course. At the rear are pilasters.[6][7]
The coach house and stable block were designed by John Carr, and are in brick with stone dressings, rendered on the front, and with a Welsh slate roof. There are four ranges with a square plan around an open courtyard. The south range has two storeys, and nine bays projecting slightly under a dentilledpediment containing a clock. The range has a plinth, a continuous impost band, a dentilled cornice and a hipped roof. On the front are three recessed arched with moulded heads, and sash windows. On the roof is a cupola with Doric columns and a domed lead roof. The other ranges have a single storey.[8][9]
The estate lodge, which incorporates medieval fragments, is in magnesian limestone with a tile roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the right bay recessed. The middle bay is gabled with decorative bargeboards, and contains an oriel window with a hood mould, above which are five re-set medieval corbel stones, and in the left bay is a casement window. The entrance is at the rear.[10][11]
The garden urn is in artificial stone with a cast iron rim, and is about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high. It has a square plinth with a moulded base and cornice. The urn is shallow and has a fluted stem and an egg and dart motif to the rim.[12]
The garden urn is in artificial stone, and stands on a square plinth about 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) high, decorated with a laurel wreath. On the urn are raised vine motifs, the stems of which form the handles.[13]
The three garden urns are in cast iron on square stone plinths, and are about 1.25 metres (4 ft 1 in) high. The urns have fluted stems, gadrooned bases, and fluted sides with egg and dart motifs to the rims.[14]
The urn is in Doulton Lambethware on a stone plinth, and is about 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) high. The plinth is circular and has dolphins at its base. The urn is decorated with the faces of eminent men, and has branchwork handlers and beading to the rim.[15]
An estate cottage in pinkish-brown brick with a floor band and a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and single-storey single-bay ranges in front and to the rear. Most of the windows are tripartite horizontally-sliding sashes, and the others are tripartite and mullioned with segmental heads.[16]
The gates are in cast iron, and have three levels of rails and bars, and dog bars surmounted by ornate lance heads. They are flanked by stone piers in the form of columns, with ball finials. Outside these are railings in a crescent shape, with circular and cross motifs, ending in tapering piers with ball finials.[10][19]
The church was designed by Francis Penrose and restored in 1925 following a fire. It is built in sandstone with a tile roof, and consists of a nave, a north aisle and vestry, a west baptistry with an eight-sided apse, a south porch, an apsidal chancel and a northeast tower. The tower has five stages, buttresses rising to pinnacles, an east doorway with a pointed arch and a chamfered surround, a semicircular bell turret, a five-light arcade in the third stage, clock faces, twin two-light bell openings, and an embattledparapet with corner pinnacles. The porch has two storeys, a pointed doorway, diagonal buttresses, an embattled parapet with gargoyles, and at the rear is an octagonal stair turret with a spirelet.[20][21]
The sundial is in artificial stone and about 1.25 metres (4 ft 1 in) high. It consists of a fluted columnar pedestal, above which are three putti around an urn-shaped base. On the top is a brass gnomon.[22]
The fountain, commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, is in stone, and has a stepped plinth, octagonal then circular. On this is a gadrooned urn with an upturned scallop shell. On the top is a feature consisting of three dolphin-like fish with intertwined tails. Around the rim is an inscription.[6][23]
The ornamental gates and railings are in cast iron, they extend for about 6 metres (20 ft), and are 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The railings have three levels of rails, with some ornamentation, bars between them, and scrollwork on the top. In the centre are double gates between decorative piers, and outside are pedestrian gates.[6][24]
